Fabrizio Quattrocchi
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Fabrizio Quattrocchi | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 May 1968 |
| Died | 14 April 2004 (aged 35) |
| Cause of death | Execution by shooting |
| Occupation | Security officer |
Fabrizio Quattrocchi (9 May 1968 – 14 April 2004) was an Italian Security Operator taken hostage and subsequently murdered by insurgents in the Iraq War.
Quattrocchi was taken hostage together with three fellow Italians, Umberto Cupertino, Maurizio Agliana and Salvatore Stefio. They had been working in Iraq as security contractors under contract with DTS Security LLC, a security company incorporated in the U.S. state of Nevada, run by Paolo Simeone (a former Italian Marine and French Legionnaire) and an Italian lawyer, Valeria Castellani.[1] Quattrocchi's kidnappers forced him to dig his own grave and kneel beside it wearing a hood as they prepared to film his death, but he defied them by trying to pull off the hood and shouting "Vi faccio vedere come muore un italiano!" - "I'll show you how an Italian dies!" He was then shot in the back of the neck.[2][3]
Cupertino, Agliana and Stefio would later be freed in a bloodless raid by U.S. troops, which Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi said he had approved beforehand.[4]
